Wesley's Theory of Earthquakes.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2395, 7 April 1893, Page 4

Wesley's Theory of Earthquakes.

'' The cause of earthquakes," said John Wesley, "is sio."

How he reasoned it out is not easy for the average sinner to see. The idea of such a tremendous physical convulsion a3 an earthquake resulting from the violation of moral law is nonsence in the eyes of modern science. The revrse is more* often true. "The cause of a de»l of sin," said Hannah More, ''is bile. 3 ' That we can see through. Bile poisons the braiD, and the bram is the organ of the mind. It is certain that all the earthdunkes tha 1 ever shook this wicked world never did half the damage that is done every year by sleepy stomachs and lazy liverp. Generals have lost battles, statesmen have been beaten in diplomacy, workmen have been thrown out of jobß, clergymen have preached poor sermons, and husbands and wives have duarrelled for no reason under the sun but a " touch of liver complaint." The crust of society can never lie quiet with such a force as biliousness under it. This is not a runaway metaphor ; it is hard, cold fact and the man who doesn't know it has never tried to do business with another man when the second man's skin looked yellow, or asked a loan from a friend when that friend was labouring; under a sharp indigestion. Titiug of a time six yeats ago a lady says her skin became yellow and then 0$ a saffoon hue. Her breathing was difficult and short, and she felt mnch pain in the

chest and sides. Hei appetite failed, of course, for Nature never calls fo food when phe is not in condition to use it. Still a trifle of sustenance must be taken. The lady took it, digested a bit of it, and suffered great distress from the presence of the rest in the torpid stomach. We scarcely need say tha*- h^r sleep was broken, and mind and body weary, weak, and ont of tone. Now what Bort of life is this to lead ? What is anybody good for while in such a state as that? What wages would you give a servant who was always so? What would you wager on your own success in business if you had to pit yourself against other peoples sharpness' while you had to fight with a poison-soaked head and a stomach that refused its breakfast? Not a crooked sixpence.

Our correspondent continues: "At last I took to my bed. The doctor said my liver was wrong ; that I had the jaundice. As his medicine did no good, he advised me to go to the hospital. I objected to this, ' Try a change of air, then, and see what that will do for you.' So I went to my old tome in Pairford, Gloucestershire. This did no good, and I consulted another physician, who attended me for some time, but failed to help me. My friends now thought I was in a decline.

" I didn't eat enough to feed a bird, and began to despair. Gradually growing more feeble and miserable, with no expectation o£ better days, I lingered on until July, 1890, when an acquaintance urged me to try Mother Sei gel's Syrup. The confidence my friend seemed to have in this medicine made such an impression on me that I sent ray neice four miles to get it. After taking the first bottle I felt better. A weight appeared to be lifted from my chest, and I begun to relish my food, and felt better in every way. I will conclude by Eaying that when I had used two qottles more I returned to Birmingham duite well, and have had no attack of the kisease since. lam oaly sorry I did not Snow of the Syrup years before. (Signed Saeah Hawkes, of the Lion Inn, Long;more Street, Birmingham/

Here ia certainly a lesson £or the day. Probably there ib not one versor ia a thousand who lias not suffered from what is called a "bilious attack." ard many are more or less bilious all the time. The symptoms aie these : Furred tongue, headache, dulness, and sleepiness, yelloweyes and skin, spells of dizziness, hot hands and cold feet, bad tabte in the mouth, loss of appetite, broken sleep, nervousness, loss of inclination to exertion or work, low spirits, irritable temper, the gulping of a nauseating wiod or gas, distress after eating, and wandering pains all over the body. These things signify liver complaint ; and the cause is indigestion and dyspepsia. If long neglected there are plenty of worse consequences to follow. The success of Seigel'B Syrup in curing this malady is due to the fact that it poes straight as an arrow to the very root and Eource of it, the paralysed digestion. Whatever may be the true theory of earthquakes we may be sure of one thing, anyway — namely, that bile in the blood, arising from an arrest of the digestive functson, is the hotbed of more sorrow, pain, and death than all the powers at the interior of the earth ever scattered over its surface.